Telegram-herald., 1887-07-03

wEAroSs rAxES FROM coUSTxRTEIrEPs
-Weii, sir, that IS a s. national bank note
raised % 800 and this raising OF bills is very
common Here ia a a. raised % SO. and Sc
20 so. The plan Is 10 erase whatever NAV
De necessary to the change from the bill by
means % acids and other chemicals, and then
70 pat IN new amounts by print or sometimes
wIta the zen. such bills do not deceive men
who ara accustomed 10 handle money, but
they pass easily IN tie country districts It
Is IN the country that the most counterfeit
ing Is done and passed. The banks OF the
city are expert and wary, and there is dan
ger Of detection
| next picked up some s. notes, and the
guard, picking up a IS. went on ~That."
said IA. is very dangerous counterfeit,
and the plates from which il was produced
are 50 near like the genuine that they are
almost perfect. We gos $4,000 of this
money when we captured the man who made
them, and there was a great deal in circula-
ton. Some vas sent here for redemption
and we detected the fraud by a microscopic
examination. The trouble was that the same
plate was used for SIX or eight different
banks. They were made so that the name
OF the bank could be changed. and when it
were countsrfeits Of such a bank issue, they
changed the name Of the bank and were thus
enabled 20 get more upon the market
~How about the bank note paperl Can that
be counterfeited'n
-Yes; Tom Ballard got thirty years for sue
ceeding at this Ne convicted him ON
two indictments for counterfeiting and sent
him TO the Albany penitentiary for thirty
years"
Il notice that all this counterfeit money
has the word bad cut into them"
yes, we cut all counterfeit money that
way "a soon as il Is received, and we ruin the
plates bv gouging grooves through the en-
craving / looked at the engraved plates at
this point and found them cut this way and
that, 50 as to utterly destroy the design.
a curiosity in bad money was shown me in
the shape OF a $50 bill Every bit OF the
paper and every line of the bin is genuine.
And asked the guard what he kept 1t for
aud Why u WAS.
at is not full BILL he replied: "and il
you VIII examine il carefully YOU will see
that 1t "a made up of pieces pasted neatly to-
gstner The man who made this took twenty
good $50 bills and ne cut each into twenty
pieces and then put them together leaving
one piece out Of each bill, 50 that at the close.
instead Of having twenty $50 bills. ne had
tweuty-one. When be got through MS bills
looked very well and they passed easily. but
after they had been handled two or three
times they began 10 show the seams and were
easily detected. This method of making
money Is, however, very difficult, and We get
very few such his
There was counterfeiting done during the
Confeieracy," he went on, but the trouble
was the counterfeits OF the Confederate
money were better than the originals. and
the money soon became 50 very worthless
thar il did not pay to counterfeit t.
~One Of the best e. -ounterfeits ever made
was fnade by an Ohio man named Ulrich.
He male an excellent $50 and siOO plate. He
wa arrested in Cincinnati and the plate So
cured he was sentenced 20 the Ohio peni-
teutiary, sHd while in confinement he en-
graved upon an old sav blade an excellent
portrait Of Ex-Governor William Allen.
The head OF the secret service would make
a splendid character for Anna Katherine
Green snd II she would come here she could
find plenty of material for her detective
stories. His name - James J. Brooks. and
be y. perhaps as expert \ master OF his art
As any IN toe world he Is now about 80
ysars 4 ags. medium height, and he has a
very white fscs ard short white tair. which
looks Ike trusted silver He has an aouilne
nose. With very sensitive noSsriiS ard the
under this i the color % driven
snow. His syss are a blush gray, and when
~ smiles crows feet gather az their corners
lie "a s n = voice almost metallic IS the
ring q the genuine silver dollar. snd De can
.ell a man ~ q glance and scent counter
feiter By the straosphsre which surrounds
him He Is 4 pleasant man in corvcrsation.
IS cultured ard braiBy and Is more happy AZ
oeing the pcsseSsor Of tweutv-six grandchii-
iren than ~ any stroke Of detective work
be sas ever done
FRsyK g. CARFzSrrR